curator replacement
What's a good replacement for the curator photo album generating
package? It was dropped from Debian at least a couple of years ago.
I'd like something that doesn't suck performance wise due to python code
that can't be optimized by psyco. Something that uses multiple
processes or threads would be fantastic as I'll be running it on a dual
CPU box, one that is rather old, 500 MHz CPUs. Curator is a serial
single threaded process and thus only uses on CPU (or core).
Basically I want the features of curator, but in something that runs
much faster. Generating the individual image pages takes _forever_ on
dirs with thousands of jpg files. I'm guessing if someone with the
necessary python skill rewrote curator's function layout in a manner
that psyco could optimize, that it would be plenty fast on the
aforementioned machine. Currently it takes on the order of .5 seconds
to generate each ~2K html page. A 500 MHz CPU should be able to
generate at least 10 times as many html pages per second if the curator
python code performance didn't suck.
I'd like something similar that generates static image pages with the
nice index pages curator does. A db driven system won't work for
creating CDs full of images to distribute.
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Stan
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